Truthout
Inequality
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Markets Are the Problem (Not the Solution)
The plight of the workers is outside the purview of those who sell their architectural services or purchase the palatial homes; it is not a part of the market …
The Transformative Potential of the Right to Food
Stepping away from Big Agriculture will alleviate world hunger and poverty and reduce carbon emissions simultaneously, according to a new UN report.
Was Marx Right?
Yves Smith: As income disparity has widened enormously and class mobility has eroded, Marx's idea of class warfare seems particularly apt.
A Better Yardstick for Measuring Inequality
If we measure inequality with a yardstick that only wonks can decipher, weu2019ll end up with a society too confused to do anything meaningful about it.
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Rigging the Electoral System for the Rich
Americans believe, correctly, that the system is rigged for the rich.
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Ending Tax Breaks for Super-Rich Can Make Tax Day Fun for Rest of Us
Four simple tax changes could raise lots of money by taking away subsidies for rich people.
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A Weaponized Human Refuse Dump
People are not only poor, their poverty and suffering have literally been deemed crimes by the elite class of sociopaths running the place.
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Russell Conwell: His Theology of Wealth and Today’s GOP
Dr. Zogby: "I thought of Russell Conwell's bizarre nineteenth-century theological glorification of wealth this past week when the Supreme Court removed one of the last remaining limits on the …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Wealth Gap Today Is as Bad as It Was in the 1920s, and More
Thom Hartmann, The Thom Hartmann Program: In today's On the News segment: those at the very top hold more of the wealth than at any time since 1928, and …
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How the 99% Can Take Their Country Back from the 1%
The 1% cannot be defeated by competing on their terms, money. They can only be defeated by organizing cooperative, informed, enlightened, motivated action by all of the 99%.